And with a signature and a date today, the more than $200 million copyright lawsuit by Hollywood against the file sharing site is over. A NYC-based federal judge today granted final approval to Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Viacom, Disney, Comedy Partners and Warner Bros’ request to dismiss their almost two year case against LimeWire and its founder Mark Gorton. Filed on October 30, the motion for a voluntary dismissal with prejudice was approved by U.S. District Judge Harold Baer Jr on Thursday (read it here). None of the plaintiffs gave any official reason for ending the case against the now-closed-down LimeWire. However, sources tell me that the studios received a hefty multimillion-dollar settlement. Related: Studios Get $100M Settlement From Shuttering Download Site Hollywood first took LimeWire and Gorton to court on back on February 1, 2012 over thousands of its films and TV shows that it claimed the file sharing provider fostered the...
- 11/8/2013
- by DOMINIC PATTEN
- Deadline TV
1. Attention Google--this is what happens when you anger the record labels: LimeWire and its former CEO Mark Gorton have agreed to pay $105 million to close a legal suit alleging LimeWire encouraged users to share pirated music. It's a result of a court ruling last year that the P2P service and CEO could be liable for the illegal sharing actions of its users, and is one of the biggest music settlements yet.
2. Square, the novel mobile credit card reading solution, has pulled off a small hiring coup. It's confirmed that Mike Thole, previously an Apple engineer with responsibilities for the Ui of Safari on the Mac desktop and in iOS implementations, has now joined Square's team. Thole also developed a search app called iSeek, available on the iOS App Store. and though we don't know what he's doing at Square, we can imagine its user experience may get a lot slicker.
2. Square, the novel mobile credit card reading solution, has pulled off a small hiring coup. It's confirmed that Mike Thole, previously an Apple engineer with responsibilities for the Ui of Safari on the Mac desktop and in iOS implementations, has now joined Square's team. Thole also developed a search app called iSeek, available on the iOS App Store. and though we don't know what he's doing at Square, we can imagine its user experience may get a lot slicker.
- 5/13/2011
- by Kit Eaton
- Fast Company
LimeWire, the now-defunct peer-to-peer file sharing service, has agreed to pay major record labels $105 million, ending a 5-year lawsuit, the labels announced Thursday. The labels had accused LimeWire of contributing to piracy. This past October, U.S. District Court Judge Kimba Wood found that LimeWire and its CEO, Mark Gorton, were liable for causing massive copyright fraud. The judge shut down LimeWire at the time. The record labels and LimeWire reached the settlement while a jury trial was underway in New York City to determine the damages that Gordon would have to pay. In 2006, the...
- 5/12/2011
- by Joshua L. Weinstein
- The Wrap
WASHINGTON -- One of Congress' most dogged investigators and chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is training his sights on peer-to-peer services.
Industry sources said Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., has grown concerned over government, personal and corporate data that has become available to hackers as consumers use P2P services to get such content as music and movies.
"What drives people to these sites are the movies and music," one entertainment industry source said. "But when they get there, they open up their computers to lots of inadvertent sharing of government and personal data."
Waxman sent letters to LimeWire CEO Mark Gorton and StreamCast Networks CEO Michael Weiss asking them to explain what steps they've taken to ensure that users of the P2P services don't open up their computers to abuse.
The letters, the first steps in the investigation by Waxman's committee, come two years after copyright holders won a victory in the U.S. Supreme Court that found the Grokster P2P service illegally induced people to violate copyright laws.
Industry sources said Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., has grown concerned over government, personal and corporate data that has become available to hackers as consumers use P2P services to get such content as music and movies.
"What drives people to these sites are the movies and music," one entertainment industry source said. "But when they get there, they open up their computers to lots of inadvertent sharing of government and personal data."
Waxman sent letters to LimeWire CEO Mark Gorton and StreamCast Networks CEO Michael Weiss asking them to explain what steps they've taken to ensure that users of the P2P services don't open up their computers to abuse.
The letters, the first steps in the investigation by Waxman's committee, come two years after copyright holders won a victory in the U.S. Supreme Court that found the Grokster P2P service illegally induced people to violate copyright laws.
- 6/22/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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